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How to handle a Python BadKeyError exception in Google AppEngine

posted: Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 at 11:16 pm

This drove me nuts an hour tonight. If you’re trying to get an entity key using something like:

yourKey = someString
candidate = Candidate( key=db.Key(yourKey) )

and you get a BadKeyError, it’s because the string you’re sending in isn’t the right length. Also, AppEngine doesn’t return None from the Key method but instead returns a BadKeyError exception. You can handle this by doing:

yourKey = someString
try:
   candidate = Candidate( key=db.Key(yourKey) )
except db.BadKeyError:
   # handle the exception here

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